Census of Population and Housing 2000 - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2000

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Reference ID

USA_2000_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

U.S. Census Bureau, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Welfare (public assistance) income (US2000A_0470)

Data file: USA2000-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 338

End: 342

Width: 5

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

18. Was this person under 15 years of age on April 1, 2000?

[] Yes [Go on to question 33]
[] No

31. Income in 1999 - Mark [X] the "yes" box for each income source received during 1999 and enter the total amount received during 1999 to a maximum of $999,999. Mark [X] the "no" box if the income source was not received. If net income was a loss, enter the amount and mark [X] the "loss" box next to the dollar amount.

For income received jointly, report, if possible, the appropriate share for each person; otherwise, report the whole amount for only one person and mark the "no" box for the other person. If exact amount is not known, please give best estimate.

31. f. Any public assistance or welfare payments from the state or local welfare office

[] Yes
Annual amount - Dollars

$_ _ _ ,_ _ _ .00

[] No

Description

Definition

This variable indicates how much pre-tax income (if any) the respondent received during the previous year from various public assistance programs commonly referred to as "welfare."

Universe

Persons age 15+

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Income Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

US00A470 is a 5-digit numeric variable.

0 = No income.
99999 = NIU.

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